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Hādhā Kitāb al-Majisṭī ... [etc.]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1068 [September 20, 1658]
Description
116 leaves : paper ; 147 x 104 (103 x 68) mm. bound to 147 x 115 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135L
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Subject(s)
Astronomy, Arab
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135L
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Rare books genre
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
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Watermarks (Paper)
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Contains
Farghānī, active 861.
Jawāmiʻ ʻilm al-nujūm wa-uṣūl al-ḥarakāt al-samāwīyah.
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فرغاني، active 861.
جوامع علم النجوم واصول الحركات السماوية.
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Kūshyār, -approximately 961.
Zīj al-jāmiʻ.
Selections.
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كوشيار، -approximately 961.
زيج الجامع.
مختارات.
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Summary note
Treatise on astronomy in thirty chapters. The volume also contains portions of a work on astronomy by Kushyār ibn Labbān (Maqālah 3, bāb 9-11 and 3).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few corrections in the margin. On fol. 1a: inscription "L135 (Ga. II.29)". On the pastedown on the upper cover: Arabic number "139."
Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 1¹⁰ ( -1 with no loss of text) 2-11¹⁰ 12⁶ (+1) ; catchwords ; quires numbered using Arabic numerals (quire 3 and 4 only, fol. 20a and 30a).
Layout: 11 long lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; title also appears on the lower edge (hardly legible).
Origin: Copied by Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Tūnisī in 22 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1068 (colophon, fol. 116b, with the seal of the copyist).
Incipit: [جوامع علم النجوم] بسم ... هذا كتاب الفه احمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني الحاسب في جوامع علم النجوم واصول الهيئةِ وحركات الاشخاص السماوية وهي ثلاثون فصلا الفصل الاول في سني العرب و العجم ... الفصل الثاني في ان السماء -- [زيج الجامع] زعم قوم كثير من ارباب علم النجوم ان الكواكب تتحرك بالحوكة اليومية ... والله اعلم الباب التاسع من المقالة الثالثة في علم الهية للفاضل كوشيار قال ... تذكر في هذا الباب ... الاقاليم السبعة من الربع المعمور فهذا الربع مقسوم علي الاصطلاح بسبعة اقسام.
Explicit: [جوامع علم النجوم] و الاخر في الناحية الجنوبية فقد بينا من كشوف الشمس والقمر ما فيه كفاية ان شآء الله تعالي تم الكتاب -- [زيج الجامع] والله سبحانه وتعالي اعلم بالصواب وَاليه المرجع والماب تم الكتاب الكواكب الثابتة ١٢٠٠٠٠..
Binding note
Covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers are similarly decorated, with a central blind-stamped mandorla and a border of two double blind fillets. The envelope flap has the same border and a blind stamped roundel on the point. Paper pastedowns.
Contents
1. fol. 2a-96a : Kitāb al-Majisṭī / Farghānī.
2. fol. 96b-116b : [Excerpts from Zīj al-jāmiʻ] / Kūshyār.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Purchase ; Brill ; 1904.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 967
Brockelmann, C. GAL, GI, 221/1
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 393/1
Sezgin, GAS, 150/1; VI, p. 247-248 (no. 1)
King, D. Survey (1986), B70 (2.1.7)
Sezgin, GAS, 150/1
OCLC
67293012
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